Posted on 11/11/2014 12:44:00 AM PST by Secret Agent Man
The Cranberries prior posting about the gal singer who assaulted the flight attendant and cop was the last stupid straw about posting about guilt based on looks. (Note I am not a big Cranberries fan, I have no dog in this particular hunt - it's just an example.)
I am not against posts that discuss a person's looks per se. Particularly if it factors into the issue being discussed. If it's relevant, it's relevant.
What I am objecting to are the stupid inane posts that add nothing of value to the thread and detract from the reputation of this site as being a far better place than any liberal discussion site out there.
I am just so flipping tired of idiots claiming to be conservatives posting comments of absolutely zero value about the guilt or innocence of - almost always - a female person, based solely on her looks.
It's stupid. After being done a billion times, it's not even funny. Why so-called conservatives here think this is appropriate every time a female is in a news story that has potential criminal/illegal actions, what it really is is just tiresome. It adds nothing substantive to the thread. It makes the image of this place look crass.
And it makes light of actual crimes committed by people based on if they have breasts and vaginas. And it's entirely one way. Note we do not have thousands of post replies over the years discussing the guilt or innocence of male criminals based on how good looking they are. The female conservatives here (and the pervy guys who post all the time about females) have somehow restrained themselves from any posts of this kind, yet they cannot help themselves to go this way when there's a legal controversy with a female. Then it's find a photo, and let the idiotic guilt or innocence comment postings commence.
Can we just try to keep it classy here? Do we always have to devolve to appeal to the lowest common denominator of gutter humor here when women make the news for bad behavior/crimes? Don;t we have better standards as conservatives? Having a sense of humor is important, but why is it funny that a woman is innocent or guilty because of her looks? What makes this funny? Because ugly women deserve to be locked up? Because hot women can always get out of crimes or bad behavior and ugly women can't? This is the funny stereotype these comments are playing off of?
And when the crimes are sexual crimes, as they often are, in the articles these comments surface in, why should this be made fun of? Because there aren't any negative consequences that occur to a young boy or girl when an adult female decides to satisfy their sexual urges with usually an underage boy or girl? The same stuff isn't treated lightly or humorously when an adult male does it, in fact death threat statements and the like are posted. But it's all fun and games and smart-ass humor when a woman does it.
What makes it wrong is conservatives ought to know better. They do know that there are negative consequences to teens who have sex with adults, BOTH men and women. It's not victimless only if a woman does it. It screws up their viewpoint of sex and male-female relationships. In both cases these posters KNOW that it's wrong to have an adult authority figure having sex with kids they are in positions of overseeing. It's wrong for male and female adults to look at students as potential personal sexual conquests.
This is sick behavior for a site supposedly made up of conservatives.
Can’t comment until we see pictures.
Not Guilty(on both counts).
LOL
I like that in-depth analysis.
Diamonds are nice, to a point. Pretty and sparkly. I have a nice one on my left hand; we aren’t rich by any means, believe me, but my love & husband wanted to surprise me with it in 1996 when he popped the question. I love it, I enjoy looking at the way it catches the sun, but aside from it, I’m not high maintenance. I prefer silver over gemstones, mostly.
Never underestimate the power of muscles! I’m an arm woman myself.
Yep. Cluelessness abound.
Not guilty of anything at all! Ever. Ginger is nice.
The origin of the practice comes from an actual court trial where an attractive defendant was deemed to be too pretty to be guilty.
However, FReepers now broadly use the term “guilty” or “not guilty” to acknowledge the attractiveness (or not) of someone’s picture in lots of threads, not just those that deal with court proceedings.
It’s funny when used in threads about Helen Thomas. It’s not funny when used in threads about pedophile teachers.
No, a click is not ‘singular’ if the button is held down.
Not for a FR reply, anyway.
Mine got stuck and posted about 50 replies in about 3 seconds, way back during the “SnowBunny” fiasco.
No, a click is not ‘singular’ if the button is held down.
Not for a FR reply, anyway.
Mine got stuck and posted about 50 replies in about 3 seconds, way back during the “SnowBunny” fiasco.
Rotflmao. Double posted just for me. :-)
I am a programmer and look at windows internals all day. Windows uses a message queue. Events are posted to the queue. They are accesable to the programmer by hooking into events in the queue. Mouse click down posts a single message. Mouse click up does too.
Not sure what is wrong with your mouse, but I highly recommend a new one. If your mouse does as you say, it is possibly the anti Christ mouse, and we should all be worried.
How in the hell did you come up with that image so quick.
Impressed.
I got a new one long ago.
I think John may have fixed FR’s posting problem too.
I don’t know what caused the double post, but it wasn’t the mouse button. could be that I hit the back arrow too late.
Much more likely. It wasn’t your mouse. As a programmer, God bless him, but it was a code glitch. God bless him nonetheless. FR couldn’t exist without him.
Never had that glitch myself, but is deal with a windows queue. He deals with you all and your mice from hell. :-)
I hate typing on an iPad. Is deal with windows queue is idiotic. There was a lot more in there before this friggin device mangled it. Going to bed now. If you want to know the gist of what I said freepmail me.
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